A stills camera app built around the colour look of the Knives Out films has gone to the top of Malaysia's paid Photo & Video chart. Here is what RM27.90 buys, what other pro camera apps cost here, and what it will not do.
Quick facts
- Price in Malaysia: RM27.90, a one-off purchase, on the Malaysian App Store (read 8 November 2026).
- Chart: No. 1 paid Photo & Video app in Malaysia when we checked on 8 November.
- Who made the look: cinematographer Steve Yedlin, whose colour rendering the developer says was used on the Knives Out films.
- Stills only: it does not record video.
- Needs: iOS 17 or later. First released 20 October 2026.
It is not a budget pick by the standards of that chart. Of the five best-selling paid Photo & Video apps in Malaysia when we checked, only Moment Pro Camera II, at RM49.90, cost more; the other three cost between RM4.90 and RM9.90.
What Chromagraph actually does
Chromatic Applications, the developer, says Chromagraph is not a filter laid over a picture the iPhone has already processed. It starts from the raw sensor data and builds the image its own way, skipping the phone's usual processing in favour of what it calls "the curated look preferred by director Rian Johnson and cinematographer Steve Yedlin".
It also behaves like a film camera. You frame and shoot, and only see the finished look afterwards in the app's gallery. The raw originals are kept, and you can export a JPEG or HEIC with the look applied, or switch on auto-export so every shot lands in your photo library.
The editor adjusts tone, colour and texture, including grain and halation, without undoing the base look.
Where RM27.90 sits
These apps do different jobs and charge in different ways, so read the prices as what each costs, not as a like-for-like ranking. On the Malaysian App Store on 8 November, Kino, a video-only camera app, cost RM49.90 upfront, and Moment Pro Camera II cost RM49.90 upfront. Halide Mark III is a free download whose optional in-app purchases include a RM299.90 one-time unlock. Chromagraph's Malaysian listing shows no in-app purchases.
Free options exist too: Apple's Final Cut Camera, Blackmagic Camera and Adobe's Project Indigo all cost nothing to download here.
The limits
Chromagraph's own listing says it is a stills-only camera. On some older phones, such as the iPhone 11, not every camera supports raw capture, and those cameras cannot be used in the app. It has only a handful of ratings on the Malaysian store so far, so local user feedback is thin.
Chromagraph does nothing for video, where a look is usually built in the edit. For that, we have covered the latest DaVinci Resolve update, and we have worked out what Apple Creator Studio costs in Malaysia. We have also shot a whole music video on a phone ourselves, and how we get a film look out of an iPhone is what Pocket Cinematic teaches.
App Store charts move daily. Our readings are from the afternoon of 8 November 2026.
